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Pause to Disguise: West Prepares for Main Task in Iran | |
2025-06-25 | |
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. by Kirill Semenov [REGNUM] The temporary pause in mutual attacks between Israel, the US and Iran so far leaves more questions than it answers. Given that neither side has achieved its objectives,
NEW METHODS OF OVERTHROW In the event of a long-term truce, Washington and Tel Aviv are counting on the Yugoslav scenario being launched in Iran. Then, strikes on the country caused significant damage and, although not immediately, paved the way for a “color revolution” and a change of power. Trump has most likely generally accepted Israel's view on the need to dismantle the political system of the Islamic Republic. At the same time, the range of possible actions to achieve this goal is very wide, including the assassination of Iran's supreme leader, which could trigger revolutionary events. Therefore, what is happening is a serious challenge for Russia as well. Iran is being used to develop elements of future subversive activities against both us and China, Donald Trump's main adversary. First of all, the creation and launch of not only effective terrorist and sabotage networks, but also cells engaged in subversive activities through the dissemination of narratives favorable to the United States and Israel and organizing protests in Iranian society is being tested. Perhaps the previous principles and methods of "color revolutions" that worked against weak political regimes, such as those in Ukraine, Georgia, Kyrgyzstan, etc., have already been revised. They have proven ineffective against countries such as Russia or Iran. It is also worth recalling that the subversive actions of the US and Israel in Iran occurred immediately after Operation Spider Web, when strategic aviation bases were attacked by sabotage terrorist groups using drones from Russian territory. And earlier, there were explosions of transport infrastructure, murders of Russian generals and public figures. Both operations—the actions of cells in both Iran and Russia—followed similar algorithms, so they most likely had a single foreign coordination and decision-making center. If we consider the geopolitical consequences, then, by continuing their subversive activities against the Islamic Republic, the United States and Israel also intend to destroy the “One Belt, One Road” and “North-South” transport corridor systems that are being built. Therefore, the actions of the American-Israeli bloc are a common threat, and it would be good if it led to strengthening cooperation in the Moscow-Tehran-Beijing triangle with the possible involvement of Pakistan to the extent that it does not cost the break in the strategic partnership with India. A LIBERAL SHOWCASE WITH RADICAL CONTENT Naturally, if the enemies of the Islamic Republic aim to change power in the country, then they must prepare a leader who will personify a new Iran “without mullahs, hijabs and Sharia.” The most acceptable candidate was chosen to be the shahzade, that is, the prince, the son of the last shah, Muhammad Pahlavi, who, like his grandfather, the founder of the dynasty, bears the name Reza. As early as February 2025, Pahlavi was chosen by various fringe factions of the Iranian opposition as their leader and head of a future transitional government “until the formation of the first national assembly and the beginning of democratic rule through free elections.” In reality, however, his supporters do not wield any real influence within the country. Reza, like his father, Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, was never a popular leader. Reza Pahlavi, the grandfather, the first shah of the dynasty, essentially usurped power after a military coup and declared himself the new monarch in 1925, rather than establish a republic in Iran. In this sense, both shahs resemble the father and son of the Assad family in Syria, who led the country to collapse and revolution. Therefore, the legitimacy of the Pahlavis themselves is very conditional - they came to power through a coup and, by historical standards, soon lost power through a revolution. It is not possible to compare them with the Romanovs in Russia or other dynasties - overthrown, but having deep foundations for legitimacy. At the same time, there are more serious opposition forces in Iran, which, unlike the freak monarchists, have their own networks of influence and can really lay claim to power in the event of a hypothetical collapse. This includes, for example, the Organization of the Mujahideen of the Iranian People (OMIN), a revolutionary leftist-Islamist organization that waged armed struggle against the Islamic Republic for a long time while in Saddam Hussein's camp. The ideology of this organization is a mixture of Marxist, Leninist and Islamist positions. The MEK participated in the Islamic Revolution in Iran, but then lost the struggle for power to the "Khomeinists" and its supporters were subjected to repression. The mujahideen responded to this with a wave of terror and mass murder of supporters of the new authorities. The MEK had its own National Army of Liberation of Iran (NAL), based in Iraq and numbering 7,000 fighters. In 1988, six days after Ayatollah Khomeini announced his acceptance of a UN-brokered ceasefire, the NLA advanced under heavy Iraqi air cover, crossed the border, and captured the city of Islamabad-e-Gharb. But it was then driven back with heavy losses. In 2003, the MEK and NAO, still based in Iraq, fought on Saddam's side against the US and its allies who had attacked Iraq, but a ceasefire was then agreed upon. However, since 2009, the new Iraqi government, close to the Islamic Republic, has demanded that MEK leave Iraq. Then, pro-Iranian Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki announced that the group would be banned from basing itself on Iraqi territory. He backed up his statements with repression and arrests of its members. After that, the US began to remove the organization's fighters from Iraq. At the same time, OMIN was removed from the terrorist lists, and the US was able to convince Albania to accept the remaining 2,700 NAO members who were brought to Tirana between 2014 and 2016. It is obvious that the CIA, by showing such patronage over OMIN, expected to use its resources in the future. A 2008 report by the U.S. Army Intelligence Center said the MEK operates a large network of supporters in Iran, sparking debate among intelligence experts about whether Western powers should use the opportunity to better build their own intelligence picture of the Iranian regime’s goals and intentions. Iran has also carried out operations to expose MEK networks, for example, in 2010 and 2011, Ali Saremi, Mohammad Ali Hajj Aghaei and Jafar Kazemi were executed for collaborating with the organization . Donald Trump, even during his first presidency, wanted to use MEK against the Islamic Republic. In January 2018, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani called French President Emmanuel Macron and asked him to order the expulsion of MEK from its French base in Auvers-sur-Oise, claiming that the organization had provoked the Iranian protests of 2017–2018. The main base of the OMIN, however, remained Albania, where more than 4,000 of its members were located. There, during the Free Iran 2019 conference, former New York City Mayor and Trump’s personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani described the group as a “government in exile,” saying it was a ready-made alternative to lead the country if the Iranian government fell. Moreover, the Trump administration then stated that it did not rule out the MEK as a viable replacement for the current Iranian regime. In turn, OMIN networks in Albania were subjected to cyber attacks in 2022, which the Albanian authorities blamed on Iran, leading to a rupture in diplomatic relations between the countries. Thus, if the Shah is a kind of “face” of the pro-Western opposition, then in reality the change of power in the Islamic Republic will be carried out by networks of radical organizations such as OMIN. Of course, it now positions itself as a respectable structure that shares Western values, but in reality this group has hardly moved far from its previous principles. Therefore, even if we assume that the West will succeed in dismantling the current state system in Iran, this does not mean that they will succeed in bringing to power their own supporters, who are not an organized force. GUARDIANS OF THE REVOLUTION At the same time, there are serious obstacles to such plans for a change of power in Iran. Thus, despite the split in Iranian society, its pro-government part has united around the supreme leader. It is a foundation that can withstand any pressure, even from the majority of Iranians themselves, who are unable to crack it until it cracks itself. However, its foundation still appears monolithic, despite attempts to drive wedges through military actions by the US and Israel. At the core of this foundation is the very ideology of the Islamic Republic, the guardians and cement of which are the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). Unlike the CPSU and the Komsomol of the late USSR, the IRGC is not just a party of supporters of the Islamic regime or special services, which are also there. The IRGC is a multi-million army, an armed force of supporters of the Islamic Republic and the ideas of the Islamic revolution, whose tentacles are present in all spheres of society, holding it back from disintegration. And the opposition, even one as organized as OMIN, has nothing to counter this “monster” with. It is pointless to look for complete analogues of the IRGC: this is a purely Iranian specificity. The formation of the Corps took place without looking back at any Western examples. And what it has now become - with its own industry, aviation, navy and special services - was clearly not envisaged at the time of its creation. The IRGC emerged primarily as a military structure, a kind of guard during the war with Iraq. At that time, assault battalions were created from the most zealous Muslim supporters of the Islamic Revolution, which were then united into the divisions of "Prophet Mohammad", "Imam Hussein", "Ashura" and "Najaf", which became some of the most combat-ready during the Iran-Iraq war. Initially these were formations designed to fight Iraq on the battlefield, but were recruited from motivated volunteers who later found wider use. Thus, the IRGC rather reflects the Middle Eastern, Islamic specificity, and the most similar to it is probably the National Guard of Saudi Arabia. It arose from the religious militia of zealous Wahhabis, the "Ikhwan" (not to be confused with other "Ikhwan", the "Muslim Brotherhood"). The Saudi Ikhwan might have also secured for themselves powers as broad as those of the IRGC in Iran, if not for their conflict with the king, the unsuccessful uprising in 1929, and the transformation of those of them who remained loyal to the monarch despite their own understanding of religion into the National Guard. Instead of guardians of religion, they became guardians of the oil fields and borders of the House of Saud. That is, both the Saudi Ikhwan and the IRGC are, first and foremost, defenders, guardians of religion and a state based on religious principles. And they must protect religion from enemies, both external and internal. This is the main difference between the IRGC and the Iranian army. If the army must protect the state as a territory, then the IRGC stands guard over the Islamic revolution, its goals and ideals. Therefore, they are called upon to act both inside the country and far beyond Iran. That is why the range of tasks of the IRGC is much wider. For example, for the "export of the Islamic revolution" there is the Al-Quds command - an organization with its own structure. It is intended for foreign operations, support of allied movements and countries. That is, if we imagine the IRGC as a matryoshka doll, as a state within a state, then Al-Quds is also a state, a matryoshka doll, but already within the “IRGC state”. With its own separate intelligence structures, special forces, ground forces. And it seems that it will be difficult to find a suitable analogue for this. The IRGC has its own intelligence and counterintelligence, but so does the Quds Force command. At the same time, the Islamic Republic itself as a state also has its own intelligence and counterintelligence, not connected to the IRGC. But functions similar to those of, for example, our Federal Security Service are concentrated in the IRGC. The Ansar al-Mahdi unit operates to protect senior officials and religious centers, and the Supreme Leader himself is protected by the Wali-e Amr unit. The IRGC also has rapid reaction forces and special operations forces that duplicate the army special forces, including the Saberin Takavor Brigade, the 110th Salman Farsi Special Operations Brigade, the 33rd Al-Mahdi Airborne Brigade and separate battalions in provincial corps. While in the Army, the Special Forces are represented by the 55th and 65th Brigades. The IRGC's ground forces are organized into 32 infantry territorial corps, which were deployed from regular divisions from the Iran-Iraq War, combined with regular battalions and militias from the Basij command. Unlike the army divisions, the IRGC divisions are mostly infantry. Although they do have tank units, they are significantly fewer than the army. There are probably 8 IRGC "operational" divisions deployed at all times in peacetime, but in wartime there may be more than 40. The core of the land component in the provinces is the "Hussein Battalions", which are part of the Basij and serve as the basis for the reserve infantry divisions in wartime that will be deployed from the militias. These battalions can also be used as expeditionary forces. They have, for example, participated in the fighting in Syria. Therefore, the Basij is not only the militia and reserve of the IRGC, but also the regular units. This includes the first-priority reserve and the so-called “army of 20 million” - a broader, mass militia that can be called up to suppress internal threats. If the Hussein Battalions are the backbone of the IRGC ground forces, the equivalent of a territorial army in the provinces, then the Ali Battalions of the Basij Command are the equivalent of a gendarmerie aimed at suppressing unrest and counter-revolutionary rebellions. They work closely with the police and security forces. The IRGC has created a multi-layered presence in Iranian society and has engaged in its activities in one form or another millions of people who are ready to stand up for the Islamic revolution at the first order. At least, this is what is expected of them. This is the foundation, the basis on which the Iranian regime relies. And even if its supporters are in the minority, their unity and organization will most likely allow them to withstand the challenges and threats of internal destabilization. | |
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Trump unleashes AG Pam Bondi on law firms to combat 'baseless' civil litigation against president |
2025-03-23 |
![]() Trump said in a memorandum to US Attorney General Pam Bondi that lawyers were helping to fuel 'rampant fraud and meritless claims' in the immigration system. He directed the Justice Department to seek sanctions against attorneys for professional misconduct. The order also took aim at law firms that sue the administration in what Trump, a Republican, called 'baseless partisan' lawsuits. He asked Bondi to refer such firms to the White House to be stripped of security clearances, and for federal contracts they worked on to be terminated. Legal advocacy groups sounded the alarm on Saturday following Trump's directive. Ben Wizner, a senior lawyer at the American Civil Liberties Union, said the commands sought to 'chill and intimidate' lawyers who challenge the president's agenda. Trump has separately mounted attacks on law firms over their internal diversity policies and their ties to his political adversaries. 'Courts have been the only institution so far that have stood up to Trump's onslaught,' Wizner said. 'Courts can't play that role without lawyers bringing cases in front of them.' The ACLU is involved in litigation against the administration over immigrant deportations, including the expulsion of alleged Venezuelan gang members. The Trump administration has been hit with more than 100 lawsuits challenging White House actions on immigration, transgender rights and other issues since the start of the president's second term. Legal advocacy groups, along with at least 12 major law firms, have brought many of the cases. A White House spokesperson, Taylor Rogers, said 'President Trump is delivering on his promise to ensure the judicial system is no longer weaponized against the American people.' The memorandum specifically directs Bondi to assess lawyers and firms that have brought cases against the government over the past eight years. Law firm Keker, Van Nest & Peters, which is working with the ACLU in an immigrant rights case against the administration, said in a statement that it was 'inexcusable and despicable' for Trump to attack lawyers based on their clients or legal work opposing the federal government. Representatives from other prominent law firms that are representing clients in cases against Trump's administration, including Hogan Lovells, Jenner & Block, Perkins Coie and WilmerHale, have not yet commented. Trump issued executive orders this month against law firms Perkins Coie and Paul Weiss, suspending their lawyers' security clearances and restricting their access to government buildings, officials and federal contracting work. The president also last month suspended security clearances of lawyers at Covington & Burling, in each case citing the firms' past work for his political or legal opponents. The Keker firm on Saturday called on law firms to sign a joint court brief supporting a lawsuit by Perkins Coie challenging the executive order against it. Paul Weiss on Thursday struck a deal with Trump to rescind the executive order against it, pledging to donate the equivalent of $40 million in free legal work to support some of the administration's causes such as support for veterans and combating antisemitism. Lawyers are bound by professional ethics rules that require them to investigate allegations before filing lawsuits and not deceive the courts. Imposing disciplinary sanctions on lawyers who violate such rules falls on the court system, not federal prosecutors, though prosecutors can charge lawyers with criminal misconduct. Lawyers at some companies and law firms skewered Paul Weiss online for capitulating to Trump. Marc Elias, a former Perkins Coie partner and a top lawyer for Democrats, assailed the Paul Weiss agreement in a social media calling it 'a stain on the firm, every one of its partners, and the entire legal profession.' In an internal email to its lawyers, Paul Weiss Chairman Brad Karp defended the agreement, saying it was in line with the firm's principles, including a commitment to remaining politically independent. The firm, with more than 1,000 lawyers, major financial and technology industry clients and longstanding Democratic Party ties, would be free to focus on its client work now that the executive order had been rescinded, Karp said. Karp's email included a copy of the agreement with Trump that said the firm would hire and promote lawyers based on merit. The agreement circulated by Trump on Thursday had additional language, saying the firm agreed it 'will not adopt, use, or pursue any DEI policies.' Legal experts said Trump's orders against Paul Weiss and another big firm, Perkins Coie, marked an unprecedented attack on their ability to do business. The order against Perkins Coie was 'life-threatening' to the firm, its lawyer said last week in that firm's ongoing lawsuit against the administration. Numerous lawyers, including some with links to Paul Weiss, took to social media to criticize the deal. Molly Coleman, a former Paul Weiss summer associate and current executive director of the People's Parity Project, called the move 'unbelievably shameful' and said Paul Weiss had 'failed to find the courage the moment requires.' 'Embarrassed to be associated with this firm today,' a lawyer who previously worked at Paul Weiss, Cindy Chang, wrote in a LinkedIn comment that was later deleted. Paul Weiss may be dealt a setback in recruiting young lawyers because of its apparent retreat from diversity commitments that have spread through law firms in recent years, and are now under attack from Trump, some lawyers said. 'This is a generation that expects to see diversity and inclusion in the workplace,' said Nikia Gray, executive director of the National Association for Law Placement. Some lawyers aligned with Trump faced professional discipline over claims that they violated legal ethics rules in challenging Democrat Joe Biden's 2020 presidential election win over Trump. Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, who later was an attorney for Trump, was disbarred in New York and in the District of Columbia over baseless claims he made alleging the 2020 presidential election was stolen. Lawyers for Civil Rights, a legal advocacy group suing the administration over deportations, called the sanctions threat hypocritical saying Trump and his allies 'have repeatedly thumbed their noses at the rule of law.' |
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OMG video: State Farm boss secretly filmed making bombshell comments about [CA] wildfire victims | |
2025-03-12 | |
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] A top State Farm executive has been fired after being caught on hidden camera making stunning and callous remarks about LA wildfire victims while revealing explosive claims about secret corporate maneuvers to raise rates on vulnerable policyholders. Haden Kirkpatrick, State Farm's Vice President for Innovation and Venture Capital, was secretly recorded admitting the company 'kind of' orchestrated a massive rate hike for California homeowners reeling from the devastation of January's deadly fires. The undercover video - published by O'Keefe Media Group - sees Kirkpatrick making cynical and cold-hearted statements about victims of the recent infernos that killed 29 people, destroyed over 12,000 homes, and scorched 57,000 acres in Los Angeles County alone. In the bombshell footage, Kirkpatrick dismissed the suffering of victims and criticized Californians for building homes in fire-prone regions. 'People want to build in areas where they want to have, like, natural areas around them for their ego. But it's also a f***ing desert. And so, it dries out as a tinderbox. 'Areas like where the Palisades are, there should never be houses built in the first place,' Kirkpatrick added without an ounce of sympathy for the thousands who lost everything. But the footage went further still as Kirkpatrick admitted that wildfires such as those which tore through Pacific Palisades and Altadena, are entirely predictable to insiders and that State Farm is actively maneuvering to escape financial exposure to such disasters. 'Climate change is pushing these seasons. If you're an insurance professional, it's predictable,' he said.
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Special Counsel Jack Smith Releases Report on Trump's 2020 Election Interference |
2025-01-14 |
"The throughline of all of Mr. Trump’s criminal efforts was deceit—knowingly false claims of election fraud—and the evidence shows that Mr. Trump used these lies as a weapon to defeat a federal government function foundational to the United States’ democratic process," the report states. The report, arriving just days before Trump is to return to office on Jan. 20, focuses fresh attention on his frantic but failed effort to cling to power in 2020. With the prosecution foreclosed thanks to Trump’s election victory, the document is expected to be the final Justice Department chronicle of a dark chapter in American history that threatened to disrupt the peaceful transfer of power, a bedrock of democracy for centuries, and complements already released indictments and reports. Trump responded early Tuesday with a post on his Truth Social platform, claiming he was "totally innocent" and calling Smith "a lamebrain prosecutor who was unable to get his case tried before the Election." He added, "THE VOTERS HAVE SPOKEN!!!" Related: Jack Smith 01/13/2025 Rudy Giuliani found in contempt of court — again — for defaming Georgia election workers Jack Smith 01/12/2025 Special prosecutor who tried to put Trump on trial resigns from Justice Department Jack Smith 01/09/2025 ‘Non-compliance has consequences': Angry judge orders Fani Willis pay attorneys fees for repeatedly violating open records laws over Jan. 6 committee docs |
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Rudy Giuliani found in contempt of court — again — for defaming Georgia election workers |
2025-01-13 |
[NYPost] For the second time this week, a judge has found Rudy Giuliani in contempt of court in a case involving two Georgia election workers he baselessly claimed committed election fraud in 2020. Washington, DC, federal Judge Beryl Howell …appointed by Barack Obama, who shocked the world by joking with President Trump at Jimmy Carter’s funeral… sided with lawyers for Shaye Moss and Ruby Freeman, …the ladies were observed on surveillance video in Fulton County’s State Farm Arena, where they were engaged as vote tabulators for the 2020 election. After the supervisor announced that the count was shut down for the night, Ms Freeman and her daughter, and Ms Moss and another worker pulled extra boxes of ballots from under the table where they’d been secreted, then repeatedly scanned the stacks of ballots into an election computer. That sounds like a basis for claiming election fraud to me… finding that Giuliani violated the judge’s "unambiguous" prior ruling barring the former New York City Mayor from continuing to defame the two women, according to reporting by The Hill.The ruling is indeed unambiguous. However, telling the truth cannot be defamation. On Monday, a Manhattan federal judge similarly held Giuliani in contempt of court, on the grounds that he was trying to "run out the clock" to avoid paying Freeman and Moss a $148 million defamation verdict they won in 2023.Did he appeal the verdict? What’s the status of that? Howell chided Giuliani — President-elect Donald Trump![]() ’s one-time personal lawyer who was once regarded as "America’s Mayor" — for using his fame to tarnish the duo with "fabricated lies." "You’re the most famous person in this courtroom right now, you’ve got a bigger audience, you’ve got a bigger public following than anyone in this courtroom," the judge said. "I really hoped we were done," the judge said. No doubt. Earlier, Michael Gottlieb, a lawyer for Moss and Freeman, told Howell they didn’t want to be back in court but said his clients just want "Mr. Giuliani to stop defaming them," according to a report by NBC News.He requested that Giuliani be fined $20,000 for every time he continued to defame the women even after Howell ordered an agreement promising he wouldn’t do so anymore. Gottlieb specifically requested that the fines come from money that has been deemed off-limits — including an IRA account. Giuliani’s lawyer, Eden Quainton, claimed a $20,000 fine per violation would be "excessive." At one point, Giuliani took the witness stand explaining that he had roughly $163,000 in a 401k account, $100,000 in one IRA account and $1.1 million in another — all of which he claimed should be exempt. "I claim they’re exempt, and you’re trying to take them from me," Giuliani testified. Giuliani allegedly violated the agreement in November on a streaming show repeating claims that the two women committed election fraud against Trump during the 2020 presidential election, but Quainton argued his client had kept his promise for months prior to the slip-up. An easy way to keep the controversy in the public eye. Howell shot down the argument. "Because he was good for a few months, we ought to excuse any bad behavior after that?" she asked. There’s a solid argument that it’s the judge, defence team, and defendants who are the miscreants. Quainton also claimed that Giuliani couldn’t have said the comments on his show with malice — a legal standard used in defamation cases — because he actually believes to be true what he’s saying about the women.Howell was alarmed by the argument suggesting Giuliani would never cease making the claims against the women. "He’s never going to stop because he thinks he’s right?" Howell said. "That’s chilling." Ted Goodman, Giuliani’s political advisor, claimed Giuliani wasn’t able to sufficiently defend himself in the original defamation suit. "This contempt ruling is designed to prevent Mayor Giuliani from exercising his constitutional rights," Goodman said. Manhattan federal Judge Lewis Liman on Monday held Giuliani in contempt for twice blowing off deadlines and failing to turn over critical information ahead of a Jan. 16 trial in the case about whether his Florida home and his cherished Yankees World Series rings should be relinquished to Ross and Freeman to help pay down his debt to them. "The defendant willfully violated a clear and unambiguous order of the court," Liman said, also blasting Giuliani’s testimony Monday as "self-serving." The surveillance video:
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Paradise Lost - The burning of L.A. is not just a natural disaster. It's a man-made catastrophe. |
2025-01-10 |
[Free Press] The first job of the government is to keep people safe. Failing that, its job is to show that someone is in charge when crisis erupts. On 9/11, there was nothing then—Mayor Rudy Giuliani could do to keep the World Trade Center from falling. Yet he became, in that long-ago era, the most popular person in America by staying on the scene and leading at his city’s moment of greatest danger. That brings us to the fires in Los Angeles—the most devastating in the history of the city, with a reported 27,000 acres burned and the fires mostly uncontained. There, authorities have failed not only at protecting its residents but at inspiring confidence that they had the situation in hand. We start with Mayor Karen Bass. As the Palisades fire began to consume wide swaths of America’s second-largest city, she was in Ghana to watch the inauguration of that country’s new president. Bass left Los Angeles on Saturday—two days after the National Weather Service warned that strong winds and "extreme fire weather conditions" would soon threaten the city. On Sunday, the NWS announced a fire weather watch. By Monday, the warnings had become much more urgent, with the NWS tweeting in all-caps that "A LIFE-THREATENING, DESTRUCTIVE, Widespread Windstorm" would hit L.A. imminently. |
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Behold the Hundreds of Crimes for Which Hunter Biden Just Got Pardoned |
2024-12-03 |
[PJM] To no one's surprise—go stand in a corner if you were—Joe Biden went back on his "word as a Biden" and pardoned the family bagman, his 54-year-old son Hunter, for crimes he committed from 2014-2024. That ten-year retrospective pardon covers a lot of crimes, many of which we'll go through below. The pardon is breathtaking in its scope. Usually, someone serves some time for a crime, and then a president commutes a sentence and pardons the person for the reasons they're in the slammer. Not so here. Far from it. Hunter hasn't been sentenced yet. He likely wouldn't have done prison time. But there's an entire universe of crimes on Hunter Biden's laptop that he committed for the family business, the product of which was access to and favors from Joe Biden. As former federal prosecutor and former congressman Trey Gowdy asked Sunday night: Who's the pardon for, Hunter or Joe? The answer is both. In 2023, remember, Hunter's attorneys on his tax evasion and gun crime cases were negotiating a plea deal and presented a Delaware judge a deal that included immunity for any future crime he may commit. Had she granted that motion, we might be looking at a man who could have committed murder in the middle of 5th Avenue next year and never suffered the consequences. The Report on the Hunter Biden Laptop, from which I've been culling information for stories for our VIP readers, used cyber experts and law enforcement to verify it was his and used the 200 gigabytes of information to recreate Hunter's legal and illegal business arrangements, tax crimes, and his drug and hooker-filled sessions. If you have a problem with the latter kind of activity, do yourself a favor and please don't look at the laptop. It's X-rated. Salacious stuff aside, entries from Hunter's forgotten laptop—he'd lost three in 2019 and lost his phone 57 times, according to the Report—showed that the Biden family bagman had entries, mostly emails, that went back to 2009. It's important to mention here that the FBI sat on the existence of Hunter's laptop for one year and silently watched 51 intelligence community people claim that whatever the New York Post was reporting looked like Russian disinformation before the 2020 election. The FBI information operation included leaking stories claiming that Rudy Giuliani, a former Southern District of New York federal prosecutor and mayor of New York, was a Russian stooge because he talked about information on the laptop. For the record, Giuliani, ever the law-and-order guy, was instrumental in getting the laptop into the FBI's hands. Unfortunately for Giuliani, he was a Trump supporter and therefore needed to be squashed... RTWT |
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We Can All Thank Don, Jr. |
2024-11-17 |
[AmericanThinker] This November 28th, when America counts its blessings, the top of my list will be Donald J. Trump, Jr. He is really the guy who made the success of 2024 possible. If you think back to 2016, the whole Trump effort, it was not just unlikely, it was ridiculous. The campaign consisted mostly of Donald Trump ...The tack in the backside of the Democratic Party... ’s stream-of-consciousness Tweets and phone calls to various talk shows. Volunteers from around the country organized their own events for him because there was no real traditional campaign organization. Some went very well. Others, not so much, like the March 2016 rally at the University of Illinois, reliably Democrat Chicago, aka The Windy City or Mobtown ...home of Al Capone, the Chicago Black Sox, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel... . Smack in the middle of one of America’s premier left-wing neighborhoods, it turned into an ANTIFA-style riot. When he got to the White House, President Trump was immediately handicapped by poor organization and some awful hires. Most Trump people came in one of three flavors -- loyal but incompetent, like Mike Flynn. The just plain incompetent, like Coats and Sessions. And worst of all, the incompetent and outright perfidious, like Generals Kelly, Mattis, and McMaster. Most of that last category seems to be people Ivanka and Jared wanted. Unsurprisingly, this team of scrubs was no match for the D.C. Swamp. Much of the anger and frustration of Trump and his supporters on Jan 6, 2021, was fueled by the realization of just how badly they were served by people who were supposed to be on their side. If you are somebody like Rudy Giuliani, tirelessly working with President Trump to save the country, and you see him get impeached for properly trying to investigate the Biden bribery scandals or have the Deep State run a game to falsely impugn the Hunter Biden laptop, or worst of all, see the Deep State’s outrageous Russiagate scandal, which was cooked up by Crooked HillaryClinton ...former first lady, former secretary of state, former presidential candidate, Conqueror of Benghazi, Heroine of Tuzla, formerly described by her supporters as the smartest woman in the world,usually described by the rest of us as The Thing That Wouldn't Go Away. Politix is not one of her talents, but it's something she keeps trying to do... 's people. Then yes, you may even start to think the voting machines in Georgia could be rigged. After the disappointing 2022 midterms, most people (including me) gave Donald Trump no chance. DeSantis even passed by him in the betting odds. Behind the scenes, however, it was Don who started to bring some order to the chaos of Trump world. Until then, he had been the second banana in the family behind Ivanka and Jared. But they were bored with the whole political scene after 2020 and moved on. Especially after Jared got Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi... to bail him out of his high-rise real estate disaster. Don (and his brother Eric) had spent most of the first Trump term in New York, ably running the Trump business, even as they had to meet a make-or-break deadline to refinance their holdings. Then, it was finally Don’s turn to help assist his father’s political operation and did he ever. Don began by hiring Susie Wiles to run the national campaign. Wiles got her start with Jack Kemp, then worked for Ronald Reagan all eight years. She has a marvelous record of running campaigns. When she became available after a falling out with Ron DeSantis, she was welcomed into the 2020 campaign and then tapped to run the whole 2024 effort. This was a great move. She has a whole ecosystem of competent people around her, and she got Trump organized and focused on the issues. The unprecedented lawfare attack by the Biden administration in 2023 was met calmly and became a rallying point for people who had seen enough of the Democrats ![]() white people, white supremacy, whiteanything but paint, you're listening to a Democrat. Ask him/her/it to reimagine something for you; they do that a lot, though not well. They can hear a dog whistle a mile or two away. They invented the spoils system and Tammany Hall, and inspired the addition of the word (Thomas) Nastyto the English language. They want to stop continental drift and repeal the law of unintended side effects... ’ dirty tricks. Don was also the talent scout, bringing in fresh new faces who could make a difference. He was the one who got Ronna McDaniel ousted from the RNC and brought in Charlie Kirk to implement more modern election tactics. Whereas in 2020, President Trump decried early voting; in 2024, Don was convinced those were now the rules and we had to outdo the Democrats. It was Don who befriended JD Vance, seeing he was a budding star and had his father endorse him in a crowded Senate primary. Don also lobbied for him as VP pick, which proved an inspired choice, as he connected with younger voters. Remember, it was Jared and Ivanka who kept attaching President Trump to ridiculous celebrities like Kanye West and the Kardashians. While it was Don who built a network of serious people to help the country, like Peter Theil. The first days of the Trump transition are now going like the last days of the Trump campaign -- focused, efficient, and smooth. I suspect that’s in large measure due again to Don and he is likely the one recommending all the solid cabinet picks. Thanks to Donald J. Trump, Jr., I think Trump 47 is going to be a far more successful experience than Trump 45. |
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Hunter Biden will undergo a seven-hour psychological evaluation | |
2024-09-27 | |
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] … to prove he was 'emotionally damaged' by disgraced Overstock CEO's Iran claim
The thorough mental examination is part of his defamation lawsuit against former Overstock chief executive Patrick Byrne, 61. In a joint filing with Byrne's lawyers on September 17, Hunter agreed to a battery of psychological tests to help establish whether he was emotionally damaged by Byrne's claims of corruption against him. Hunter, 54, sued the ex-CEO in Los Angeles federal court last year, claiming Byrne falsely accused him of soliciting a bribe from Iran. Before his pocket lawyer quit. Byrne posted to his then-290,000 followers on social media site X claiming Hunter contacted the Iranian government offering to have his father Joe Biden 'unfreeze' $8 billion of their funds in exchange for an $800 million bribe. 'These defamatory statements by Byrne are not merely false and not merely malicious — they are completely outrageous,' Hunter's November 2023 complaint said, adding the allegations were 'complete nonsense'. Byrne is a Trump supporter who pushed the conspiracy theory that Joe Biden stole the 2020 election, as well as negative claims about Covid-19 vaccines. Hunter's attorneys said instead of retracting his bribery claims when he was told they were false, Byrne 'doubled down' and republished them. A September 17 filing in the case declared Hunter was 'seeking emotional distress damages in connection with his claim for defamation', and agreed to the examination to prove it. Hunter's mental exam is set for October 11, and will be conducted by Dr. Nathan Lavid in Long Beach, California. 'The parties hereby agree that the defense may conduct a single mental examination of plaintiff,' the joint legal notice read. 'No one will accompany plaintiff into the examination room. The examination will be limited to seven hours of face to face interview time and psychological testing.' Lavid will use 'diagnostic tests, including but not limited to a clinical interview of plaintiff and a testing period during which Dr. Lavid will administer a variety of standardized written tests,' according to the filing. Byrne stepped down as chief executive of the retail company Overstock in 2019 after the share price dropped when he started making cryptic comments about the 'deep state'. He also admitted in a letter to investors in August that year that he had a romance with Maria Butina, a Russian agent subsequently jailed for illegal influence peddling. Hunter's suit against Byrne is one of several civil actions the First Son is still embroiled in, after receiving two guilty verdicts in the federal gun and tax crimes cases he faced this year. He is suing the IRS for allegedly improperly releasing his personal data – though whistleblowers who ran the agency's criminal probe into the tax cheat First Son said they made disclosures to Congress through proper legal channels. Hunter has also sued Trump's former attorney Rudy Giuliani and former White House staffer Garrett Ziegler for allegedly hacking his data by handling his abandoned laptop. But he could be fighting his lawsuits from prison in just a few months' time, as his sentencing hearings loom in December. He is set to be sentenced for his gun crimes in Delaware on December 4, and for his tax crimes in Los Angeles on December 16 – for which he faces a maximum penalty of 17 years incarceration. His father has promised that he will not pardon him or commute his sentences. Related: Patrick Byrne 08/26/2021 Dominion CEO John Poulos broke down in tears in front of his family and started screaming at the TV during Rudy Giuliani's 'sweaty' press conference where he accused the voting machines of rigging the vote for Biden Patrick Byrne 06/17/2021 Results of Georgia Special Elections Have Democrats on Edge Patrick Byrne 05/14/2021 Arizona's Maricopa County Deleted Entire Databases Prior To Turning Over Equipment To Audit Related: Hunter Biden 09/26/2024 Rep Stacey Plaskett (D Del):The DOJ and FBI are weaponized to go after people with opposing views. Hunter Biden 09/24/2024 Kamala Harris protested deportation with disgraced celebrity Hunter Biden 09/14/2024 IRS whistleblowers file $20M defamation lawsuit against Hunter Biden's attorney: ‘Incredible and malicious harm' | |
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Steal The Vote V9.564: fake overseas ballots |
2024-09-10 |
[GP] WAKE UP, REPUBLICANS!... Democrats Are Openly Stealing the 2024 Election with Fraudulent Overseas Ballots The Gateway Pundit reported extensively on this 2020 voter fraud scheme in numerous battleground states. One method Democrats used to steal the election was with overseas ballots. We saw evidence of this in several battleground states. During an Arizona Senate session in February2022, the discussion turned to the UOCAVA voters — these are voters covered under the Uniform Overseas Civilian Absentee Voting Act. These are the men and women who are serving their country in the military and send in a mail-in vote from where they are stationed outside the country. These ballots also include US citizens residing in countries outside the United States. The act officially covers:
During the Arizona hearing, Paul Harris, a Maricopa resident and veteran in corporate executive management, spoke to the committee. Harris was a manager during the audit of the Maricopa County audit of the 2020 election ballots. Paul Harris was tasked with overseeing the UOCAVA ballots during the audit. He described his experience. Paul Harris: The UOCAVA is the Uniform Overseas Civilian Absentee Voting Act ballot. That ballot is sent out to men and women who work overseas and the people who work overseas to get a chance to work in the election. This is what a ballot looks like that goes out, an 11 1/2 X 19 ballot. When I opened up a box of ballots this is what a ballot looks like that’s a UOCAVA ballot. You know what that is? It’s an 8 1/2 X 11 sheet of copy paper. This testimony by Paul Harris is very similar to what we witnessed in Michigan and Georgia. We reported on this extensively at The Gateway Pundit. The Gateway Pundit recorded testimony in three battleground states of this happening. But there’s more… Back in 2020 election worker and witness Kathleen Alby (sp?) testified at the November 2020 Arizona Senate Hyatt hearing for Rudy Giuliani. She said baskets of “military faxes” in Pima County were converted to actual ballots at stations with just one person. The cubicles only had one chair, no observers. She said hundreds (probably thousands) of these ballots had no chain of custody. She and other election workers could not get questions answered regarding this shady process. AZ State Senator: “Were there a lot of those duplicates (military ballots)?” Ms. Alby later described the thousands of ballots faxed in from overseas or wherever they were coming from. Ms. Alby: “I complained about the chain of custody of all of these faxes because there were so many, and I questioned that. Because I wasn’t sure, I mean, I could be in Michigan and I could fax something to Pima County. It could be rerouted anywhere, through any fax. And how do I know it didn’t come from Afghanistan? “ Again, this appears to be a highly coordinated tactic used by the left in several battleground states. We saw it in Michigan. We saw it in Georgia. Fast forward to 2024. Democrats announced they are pushing their UOCAVA election fraud into overdrive. The Gateway Pundit’s Patty McMurray reported on the Democrats’ UOCAVA fake voter scam last week. In the 2000 presidential election, a mere 629 votes separated the race between George W. Bush and Al Gore in Florida. When the absentee overseas votes finally arrived, George W. Bush was able to take the 537-vote lead from Al Gore and win the presidency. Democrats paid attention. Are Democrats really interested in attracting more overseas voters, or is it the flawed voter registration system they use that could be a game-changer in our upcoming election if properly utilized by unscrupulous election officials? On August 12, 2024, the DNC released a memo announcing it would spend six figures to collect up to 9 million Democratic votes from overseas. Related: Voter fraud 08/23/2024 Georgia election board members under fire for last-minute rule changes Voter fraud 08/12/2024 Kamala Harris and the Great Democrat Cheat Machine Voter fraud 08/09/2024 Georgia tries navigating 2024 election while investigating unresolved disputes of 2020 election Related: Overseas ballot 10/18/2020 White House election race reaches streets of Tel Aviv Overseas ballot 11/08/2018 Howard Dean: Georgia Election 'Almost Certainly Stolen' by Kemp; Tells Abrams Not to Concede Overseas ballot 10/30/2016 FBI Hillary investigation bombshell is why we should not have early voting |
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Ammerica's Mayor disbarred following criminal indictments |
2024-07-03 |
[NYPOST] Embattled former Mayor Rudy Giuliani – a former prosecutor known for his work in taking down the mob in the Big Apple – can no longer practice law in New York, an appeals court ruled Tuesday. “Rudolph William Giuliani, is disbarred from the practice of law, effective immediately, and until the further order of this Court, and his name stricken from the roll of attorneys and counselors-at-law in the State of New York,” the First Department appeals court wrote in a decision released Tuesday. Related: Rudy Giuliani 06/17/2024 Do the Plotters of the ‘51 Intel Experts' Coup Deserve Prison? Rudy Giuliani 03/19/2024 Trump attorneys file to disqualify Fani Willis from election fraud case despite prosecutor stepping aside Rudy Giuliani 12/12/2023 The FBI Report on the Late Night Ballot Fraud Operation in Georgia in 2020 EXONERATES RUDY GIULIANI and Implicates Chris Wray |
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Do the Plotters of the ‘51 Intel Experts' Coup Deserve Prison? |
2024-06-17 |
With Segretti’s four and a half months as a baseline, the 51-plus dirty tricksters who conspired successfully to get Joe Biden elected president in 2020 would seem to deserve no less. Confident to a fault about the Democrat control of the media, 51 intel officials signed on to the most flagrant disinformation campaign in anyone’s memory. "I think there needs to be an investigation into every single one of them," said Rep. Kat Cammack (R-Fla.), and that investigation deserves a special counsel. More deserving of prison time than the 51 were the Biden apparatchiks who set the plot in motion. On October 14, 2020, when they saw the New York Post headline "Smoking-Gun Email Reveals How Hunter Biden Introduced Ukrainian Businessman to VP Dad," they were ready to roll. They had known since December 2019 that this story might drop. That was when Mac Isaac alerted the FBI to a laptop Hunter Biden had abandoned at his computer repair shop in Delaware. Fearing that the story might break at any time, operatives within the FBI reached out to Facebook, Twitter, and other social media platforms well before the 2020 election and warned them of a potential Russian pre-election "hack and dump" operation. If done with ill intent, these operatives deserve prison time as well. On the day the Post story broke, representatives from the FBI’s Foreign Influence Task Force met with Facebook execs. As would later be confirmed at a House Judiciary subcommittee hearing, the FBI knew that the laptop was, in fact, Hunter Biden’s. Facebook founder — and future un-indicted co-conspirator — Mark Zuckerberg did not need to have his arm twisted. He and his wife, Priscilla Chan, had already invested $300 million, in CNN’s words, toward "enhancing access to voting in the United States." CNN failed to add that the Zuckerbucks enhanced access almost exclusively in Democrat districts. With a little prodding from the FBI, Facebook promptly "deamplified" the Post story, dramatically reducing its circulation. On the same day the story broke, the FBI’s Foreign Influence Task Force also leaned on Twitter. The Twitter people needed little persuasion — some 98 percent of their political donations went to Democrats. They were all in for Biden, and Twitter blocked not only the Post story, but also the Post itself. At a House Judiciary Committee hearing, former disgraced FBI general counsel-turned Twitter exec James Baker was asked about his role in silencing the Post. To virtually every salient question regarding the laptop, Baker pleaded — in vintage Watergate fashion — memory loss. "You were entrusted with the highest level of power at Twitter, but when you were faced with the New York Post story, instead of allowing people to judge the information for themselves, you rushed to find a reason why the American people shouldn’t see it," said committee chair James Comer. "You did this because you were terrified of Joe Biden not winning the election in 2020." A May 10, 2023 report by the Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government filled in the details. The plot was hatched on October 17, 2020, when Biden campaign adviser — now secretary of state — Antony Blinken contacted Michael Morell. Morell had served as acting director of the CIA under Obama. At Blinken’s request, Morell began assembling the draft of a statement that would dismiss this epic October surprise as more of the same old Russian disinformation. At the very least, Blinken should resign immediately. Morell had a motive. He was in the running for the post of CIA director. Needing a Biden win to secure it, Morell went to work lining up co-conspirators. "Thereafter," reads the subcommittee report, "Morell contacted several former intelligence officials to help write the statement, solicit cosigners, and help with media outreach." On October 19, Morell emailed Nick Shapiro, his former deputy chief of staff, asking him to place the statement in major publications. "On background," Shapiro was to tell reporters that Morell, in talking to Russian intel experts, "was struck by the fact that all of them thought Russia is involved here." In truth, Morell had talked to no Russian intel experts before organizing the draft. Politico bit first, running a story on October 19 under the bold headline "Hunter Biden Story Is Russian Disinfo, Dozens of Former Intel Officials Say." As Morell testified to the House subcommittee, one major purpose of the statement was "to help Vice President Biden in the debate." In an October 19, 2020 email, Morell told former CIA director John Brennan he wanted to "give the [Biden] campaign, particularly during the debate on Thursday, a talking point to push back on Trump on this issue." During the October 23 debate, when Trump played the laptop card, Biden countered with the Russia card as planned. "Look, there are fifty former National Intelligence folks who said that what this, he’s accusing me of is a Russian plan," said a well rehearsed Biden. "They have said that this has all the characteristics — four — five former heads of the CIA, both parties, say what he’s saying is a bunch of garbage. Nobody believes it except him, his, and his good friend Rudy Giuliani." In an estimate more conservative than many, Trump pollster John McLaughlin found that 4.6 percent of Biden voters would not have voted for Biden if they had known about the contents of Hunter’s laptop. Even if those people had simply not voted, their absence at the polls would have handed several swing states to Trump. Kept purposefully in the dark, too many Americans chose to believe Biden and his co-conspirators. "On November 3, 2020, the American people went to the polls to elect the president of the United States with the false impression that Hunter Biden’s laptop was Russian disinformation," the House subcommittee concluded three years too late. "The American people cannot get back the 2020 election." They cannot get the election back, but they can get justice. If prison seems an extreme remedy for the conspirators, it pays to remember that 40 government officials were indicted or imprisoned for Watergate. |
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